Index.
(Titles of chapters are given in capital letters.)
A.
Abbott, H. C. De S., 286.Academy, French, originated with women, 86.
Accomplisiments, marketable, 60.
Adam, 7.
Adams, Abigail, 114.
Adams, John, 114.
Aeschylus, 44.
Agassiz, Louis, 96.
Alcinous, 9, 11.
“Alice in Wonderland” quoted, 132; “In the looking-glass,” 192.
Allen, Ethan, quoted, 303.
Allen, Grant, quoted, 212.
Alumni, Society of Collegiate, 232, 235.
American love of home, 281.
Ampere, J. J., 248.
Andersen, H. C., 265.
Andrew, J. A., 38.
Anglomania, 22.
Aphrodite, 2.
Apollo, Phoebus, 44, 47.
Appleton, T. G., 22.
Arab festivals, 226.
Arnold, Matthew, quoted, 130. Also 133, 140, 248. [312]
Artemis, 2.
Aryan race, traditions of the, 46.
Astell, Mary, quoted, 89.
Athena, 45.
Audrey, 102.
Auerbach, Berthold, quoted, 14.
aunts, maiden, 38.
Austen, Jane, quoted, 113. Also 156, 157, 160, 194.
Authorship, difficulties of, 151, 202.
B.
Babies, exacting demands of, 41.Badeau, General, Adam, quoted, 103, 128.
Bancroft, H. H., 225.
Barnum, P. T., 108.
Barton, Clara, 20.
Baeudelaire, Charles, 302.
Baxter, Richard, 34.
Beach, S. N., quoted, 143.
Beaconsfield, Lord, quoted, 271.
Beethoven, L. yon, 252.
Bell, A. G., 99, 209.
Bell, Currer. See Brontie, Charlotte.
Bickerdyke, Mother, 20.
Birds at midsummer, 304.
Birthday, secret of the, 176.
Bismarck, Prince, 309.
Black sergeant, prayer of, 79.
Black, William, quoted, 168.
Blake, William, 180.
Blanc, Louis, 129.
Blood, Lydia, 102.
Bonaparte, Napoleon, 247.
Bonheur, Rosa, 250, 252, 261, 263.
Bossuet, J. B., 87.
Bourbons, decline of, 107.
breaking and bending, 121.
Bremer, Fredrika, quoted, 14. [313]
Brinton, Dr. D. G., quoted, 286.
Broute, Charlotte, 260.
Brooks, Mrs., Sidney, 76.
Browning, E. B., 250, 252, 263.
Browning, Robert, quoted, 273, 302. Also 308.
brutality of “Punch and Judy,” the, 254.
Burns, Robert, 19.
“ but strong of will,” 54.
Butler, Fanny Kenble, 154.
Byron, Lord, 19, 160.
C.
Canadian judge, ruling of, 92.Carlyle, Thomas, quoted, 300. Also 149.
Carnegie, Andrew, quoted, 168, 169.
Carr, Lucien, 179.
Cato, M. P., 97.
“ chances,” 65.
Channing, W. E., quoted, 127.
Chateaubriand, F. R., 76.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 278.
“ Chevy Chace,” quoted, 220.
Child, L. M., 13, 179.
Children, dressing of, for school, 241.
Children on A farm, 197.
Children, the humor of, 217.
Choate, Rufus, 18.
Christmas all the time, 291.
Cicero, M. T., 276.
Cincinnati, art schools in, 164.
city and country living, 212.
Clement of Alexandria, 2, 3, 4.
Cleveland, Captain R. J., 247.
Clytemnestra, 44.
Coffin, Lucretia, 47.
Cogan, Henry, 159.
Cogswell, J. G., quoted, 110.
Coleridge, S. T., 195, 302. [314]
College towns, life in, 48.
Conway, M. D., 129.
Cookery-books, 13.
Co-operation in business, 148.
Copley, J. S., 50.
Corneille, Pierre, 87.
Cornell University, 288.
Coulanges, F. de, 45.
“ Counterparts,” 68.
Country weeks ald city weeks, 34.
Cowper, William, 19.
Craddock, C. E. See Marfree, M. N.
Creator of The home, the, 28.
Cross, M. A. (George Eliot), quoted, 78. Also 88, 158, 249, 252, 260, 263, 290.
Crowne, Johnny, 5.
D.
Dabney, Charles, 170.Danton, G. J., 6.
D'Arblay, Madame, 157.
Darwin, Charles, quoted, 99. Also 23, 308.
Darwin, Dr., Erasmus, 114.
Daughters of Toil, The, 70.
Davidson sisters, the, 289.
De Quincey, Thomas, quoted, 110.
Defoe, Daniel, 285.
Dibdin, Charles, quoted, 278.
Dickens, Charles, quoted, 94, 195. Also 109, 285.
Diderot, Denis, 178.
Dinner, difficulties of the, 240.
Dix, Dorothea, 20.
dolls, the discipline of, 264.
Domestic service, 172.
Douglas, Catherine, 56.
Douglas, Ellen, 55.
Dudevant, A. L. A. (George Sand), 88, 249, 252, 260, 263.
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E.
Edgeworth, Maria, quoted, 78. Also 157, 180.Edison, T. A., 209.
Edmunds, George F., 137.
Edward II., 213.
Egypt, preservation of royalty in, 109.
Emerson, M. J., quoted, 143.
Emerson, Mrs., quoted, 143.
Emerson, R. W., quoted, 159,233. Also 1,97, 99,285, 308.
Empire of manners, the, 75.
English tourists in America, 36, 96.
Epictetus, 297.
“Eumenides” of Aeschylus, the plot of, 44.
Eve, 7.
exalted stations, 126.
F.
Family, the, among Australians, 45; in ancient Rome, 45.Farm, children on A, 197.
fear of its being wasted, the, 232.
“Felix Holt,” 78.
Fielding, Henry, 11.
Fields, J. T., 40.
finer forces, 131.
Fletcher, Alice C., 287.
flood-tide of youth, the, 48.
Florac, Madame de, 180.
Fontenelle, B. le B. de, quoted, 85.
Francomania, 26.
Franklin, Benjamin, 296.
Freeman, Alice, 21.
French standards vs. English, 23, 98.
Frenchmen, domesticity of, 281.
“Friends,” marriages among, 47.
Fuller, Margaret. See Ossoli.
Furies, the, 44.
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G.
Galahad, Sir, 296.Gallenga, A., 98.
Garibaldi, Giuseppe, 309.
Garrison, W. L., 18, 177.
Garth, Caleb, 294.
Gellius, Aulus, quoted, 97.
Genlis, Madame de, 57, 179.
German schools, drawbacks of, 246.
Gerikiman standard, the, 243.
Germany, influence of, 23, 134.
Gibbon, Edward, 290.
Gisborne, Thomas, 4.
Gladstone, W. E., 136.
Godwin, M. W., 232.
Godwin, William, 178.
Goethe, J. W. von, quoted, 36, 179, 291.
Gosse, E. H., quoted, 193.
Gough, J. B., 309.
Gower, Lord, Ronald, 138.
graces, the S11Y, 306.
Grant, General U. S., 20, 127, 303.
Griswold, R. W., 289.
Gymnastics, elevation of, 64.
H.
Hair, the uses of, 2.Hale, E. E., 206.
Hale, H. E., his theory of language. 181.
Hale, Lucretia, 40.
Harem, Shadow of the, 12.
Harland, Marion, 13.
Harte, Bret, 132, 153, 224.
Harvard University, 88, 275, 287.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, quoted, 105.
Hayley, William, 113. [317]
Hayne, P. H., quoted, 223.
Hemans, F. D., 18, 19.
hills, A return to the, 301.
“Histoire Litteraire des Femmes Francaises,” 252.
Holmes, Dr. O. W., quoted, 51. Also 96, 153, 203.
home, American love of, 281.
home, the Creator of the, 28.
Homer, 8, 203.
Homes, occasional permanence of, in America, 283.
Hood, Thomas, 19.
Horse-chestnuts, the value of, 295.
house of Cards, A, 138.
House of Lords, English, decline of, 136.
Household decoration, stages of, 161.
household decorators, women as, 161.
House-keeping in America, 72, 116; in England, 73.
Howells, W. 1)., quoted, 40, 52, 64, 194. Also 102, 141, 157, 158, 180.
Howitt, A. W., 45.
Hugo, Victor, 309.
Humboldt, Wilhelm von, 182.
humility in Americans, on A certain, 95.
Humility, the spring of; 309.
humor of children, the, 217.
Hun, Dr. E. R., 183, 181.
Huxley, T. H., 99.
I.
Independent Purse, the, 115.Industry, female, changes in, 7.
influence, the woman of, 17.
Ingelow, Jean, cited, 133.
Invalids, visits to, 227.
Italian manners, 25.
J.
Jackson, Helen ( “H. H.” ), 158, 236.James, Henry, 157, 158. [318]
Jameson, Anna M., 103, 180.
Janauschek, Madame, 221.
Jefferson, Thomas, 296.
Johns Hopkins University, the, 296.
Johnson, Dr., Samuel, 283.
Joubert, Joseph, quoted, 155.
Journalism and literature, 288.
Jupiter, 45.
K.
Kant, Emmanuel, 90.Kapiolani, Queen, 107.
Keats, John, 19.
Kennedy, W. P., 223.
Kent, Miss, 40.
Kerenhappuch, 275.
L.
Ladd, Professor G. T., 90.Lamb, Charles, quoted, 83, 302.
Lander, Jean M., 20.
Language, the New theory of, 181.
Languages, variety of, 182.
Lanier, Sidney, quoted, 296.
Leclerc, M., 87.
Lecturers, English, 96.
Leighton, Caroline C., quoted, 283.
Leopold, Prince, 106.
Leroi, Madame, 87.
Leslie, Eliza, 13.
letters, women's, 110.
Libraries, public, 282.
Lincoln, Abraham, 20, 218, 309.
Lioness more formidable than lion, 59, 145.
Literary centre unimportant, 225.
literary style, women's influence on, 85.
Livermore, Mary A., 20.
Lochinvar, the young, 55. [319]
Longfellow, H. W., 19, 203, 308.
Lotze, Hermann, quoted, 90.
Louis XIV., 179.
Lowell, J. R., quoted, 171, 212, 291. Also 95, 97, 99.
Lucas, Mrs., John, 287.
Lyon, Mary, 21.
Lytton, Lord, 193.
M.
Maiden aunts, 38.Maiden ladies, dignity of, 31.
Maine, Sir Henry, cited, 10.
Maitland, Major, 137.
Manugin, Arthur, quoted, 214.
Mann, Horace, quoted, 134. Also 243, 244.
Manners, American, 101, 169, 224; English, 139; Italian and Spanish, 25.
manners, the Empire of, 75.
Marketable accomplishments, 60.
Marriage, chances of, 65.
Marshall, Emily, 177.
Martincan, Harriet, quoted, 7, 228. Also 13, 263.
martyrdom, Mice and, 141.
Matchin, Maud, 103, 104.
Mather, Cotton, quoted, 252.
Matthews, Brander, 171.
Mazare, Prince, 160.
Mazzili, Giuseppe, 129, 309.
Mellin's Food, 265.
men, the nervousness of, 238.
men's novels and women's novels, 156.
Mendelssohn, B. F., 15.
Mendelssohn, Fanny, musical compositions of, 15, 251.
“Meretricious,” origin of the word, 10.
Mericourt, Theroigne de, 236.
Mice and martyrdom, 141.
Michigan University, 287. [320]
Miller, Captain, Betsey, 211.
Millet, J. F., 194.
Milton, John, 19, 285.
Minerva, 45.
Miranda, 102, 103.
Missionaries, 236.
Moliere, J. B., 87.
Moore, Thomas, quoted, 19, 278.
Mopsa, 102.
“Moral equivalence of sexes,” 91.
more thorough work visible, 286.
Morse, S. F. B., 99.
mother, on one's Relationship to one's, 43.
Mott, Lucretia, 47, 179.
Muller, Max, 26.
Murfree, M. N., 225, 259, 263.
musical woman, The Missing, 249.
N.
Napoleon. See Bonaparte.Napoleon, Louis, 101.
Napoleons, dynasty of the, 98.
Nausikaa, 8, 11.
Nervousness of men, the, 238.
New theory of language, the, 181.
Newcome, Ethel, 55.
Newell, W. W., 13.
Newport, R. I., life at, 71, 98.
Nicknames in college, 275.
Nithisdale, Countess of, 56.
Normandy, a scene in, 201.
Northcote, Sir, Stafford, 136.
Norton, Andrews, 18.
Norton, C. E., 18.
novels: men's and women's, 156.
Nursery, a model, 264.
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O.
Odyssey, Palmer's, 248.Opie, Amelia, 157.
Orestes, 44.
Organizing mind, the, 146.
Ossoli, Margaret Fuller, quoted, 211, 232.
Outside of the shelter, 7.
P.
Paganini, Nicolo, 238.Palma, Jacopo (Vecchio), 307.
Palmer, Professor G. H., 248.
Parnell, C. S., 272.
Parochialism, 222.
“ Patience” quoted, 51.
Peabody Museum of American Archaeology, 287.
Perdita, 102, 103.
Petrarch, Francisco, quoted, 75, 285.
Phelps, E. J., 137.
Phi Beta Kappa Society, the, 288.
Philanthropist, improvidence of a, 188.
Phillips, Wendell, 284, 309.
Pike, Owen, quoted, 212, 213.
Pinart, Mrs., Nuttall, 286.
Pisani, Catherine de, 86.
Plato cited, 178.
Plea for the uncommonplace, A, 192.
Poe, E. A., 289.
“Pontius cum Judaeis,” 256.
Porter, Jane, 157.
Precieuses, the, 87.
Presidency in United States, 128.
Prince Hal, 49.
publisher, the search after A, 151.
Punch and Judy, the brutality of, 254.
Purse, the independent, 115.
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Q.
“Quite rustic,” 100.
R.
Rachel, 250, 252, 263.Radcliffe, Ann, 160.
“Ramona,” influence of, 236.
Rank in England, 126.
Recamier, Madame, 76, 77.
Relationship to one's mother, on one's, 43.
return to the hills, A, 301.
Richardson, Samuel, 11.
Richelieu, Cardinal, 87.
Robespierre, F. J. M. I., 6.
Rochejaquelein, Baroness de la, 56.
Rochester, Lord, 5.
Rogers, Professor W. B., 96, 287.
Roland, Madame, 236.
“Romola,” 260.
Routledge, George, 18, 19.
Royalty, childishness of, 21, 105.
royalty, the toy of, 105.
“Rudder Grange” quoted, 42.
Ruskin, John, quoted, 100.
S.
St. Leonards, Lord, 138.Saints, vacations for, 33.
Salem sea-captains, youthfulness of, 247.
“ Sales-ladies,” 172.
Salisbury, Lord, 136.
Salmon, L. M., 287.
Sand, George. See Dudevant, A. L. A.
Sanitary Commission, the, 235.
Santa Claus agencies, 269.
Sapsea, Thomas, 94.
Schlemihl, Peter, 12.
Scott, Sir, Walter, quoted 55. Also 19,157,194.
Scudery, Charles de, 15.
Scudery, Magdalen de, quoted, 15, 87, 159.
search after A publisher, the, 151.
secret of the birthday, 176.
Sedgwick, C. M., 289.
Seward, Anna, 113, 114.
shadow of the harem, the, 12.
Shakespeare, William, quoted, 56,91, 177, 178, 239. Also 19, 32, 49, 55, 102, 103, 108, 262.
Shelley, P. B., 19.
shy graces, the, 306.
sick, on visiting the, 227.
Siddons, Sarah, 250.
Simms, W. G., 223.
single will, the, 90.
Sisters of Charity, 69.
Size, physical, gradual diminution of, 262.
Smith College, 275.
social pendulum, the swing of the, 22.
social superiors, 171.
Society, origin of its usages, 77.
Socrates, 81.
Somerville, Mary, 250, 251,252, 261.
Sophocles, E. A., 30.
South Sea Island proverb, 236.
Spanish manners, 25.
Spenser, Edmund, quoted, 307.
Spinning, in Homer, 8; in ancient Rome, 13.
Spinsters, insufficient supply of, 39.
Stael, Madame de, 57.
Stone, Fanny, 56, 58.
Stone, General C. P., 56.
Stowe, H. B., 236.
Studley, Cornelia, 287.
Sngden, Sir, Edward, 138. [324]
Swedenborg, Emanuel, 159.
swing of the social pendulum, the, 22.
T.
Taylor, Bayard, quoted, 6.Taylor's theorem, 287.
Tennyson, Alfred. Lord, quoted, 76, 123, 249. Also 77, 136, 308.
Terry, Ellen, 221.
Thackeray, W. M., 55, 138, 173, 180,285.
“The bread-winners” cited, 104.
Thomas, E. M., 225.
Thompson, Elizabeth, 261.
Thoreau, H. D., 285.
Tobogganing, 215.
Toil, the daughters of, 70.
Tourguenieff. J. S., 50, 309.
toy of royalty, the, 105.
Tracy, Senator, quoted, 98.
Trench, Archdeacon, quoted, 14.
Trollope, Anthony, 157.
trust funds, 187.
Tullia or Tulliola, 276.
Twain, Mark, 37, 153. 218.
U.
Uncommonplace, A Plea for the, 192.unreasonable unselfishness, 80.
Upton, G. P., 249, 251, 253.
V.
Vacation, the summer, 215.Vacations for saints, 33.
value, who shall fix the, 202.
Vassar College, 279.
Victoria, Queen, 21,175.
victory of the weak, the, 296.
Virtue of man and woman the same, 3. [325]
visiting the sick, on, 227.
voices, 166.
Voices, American and English, 167.
Voltaire, F. M. A., 87.
W.
Wales, Prince of, 23.Ward, Artemus, described, 43.
Warner, C. D., quoted, 217.
Washington, George, 296.
Wasted, the fear of its being, 232.
Watson, E. H., 183.
Watson, George, 183.
weak, victory of the, 296.
Wellesley College, 100.
Wellington, the Duke of, quoted, 196.
White, R. G., 24.
Whittier, J. G., quoted, 54, 117. Also 98,106, 153, 308.
who shall fix the value? 202.
“Whole duty of man, the,” 4.
why women authors write under the names of men, 259.
Wife, position of, in Rome, 45.
Will, breaking of, in children, 1°1.
Willis, N. P., 289.
Winlock, Anna, 287.
Wollstonecraft, Mary. See Godwin.
woman of influence, the, 17.
woman's enterprise, A, 207.
Women, advantages of, 29; as household decorators, 161; as organizers, 20, 149; as public speakers, 239; authors, 18; courage of, 142; disadvantages of, 12, 92; earnings of, 119; education of, 88; employments of, 60, 161,269; plurality of, 38; teachers, 20, 100, 131, 244; their need of strength, 59; working among men, 10; writing under men's names, 259.
women as household decorators, 161. [326]
Women's Christian Temperance Union, the, 25.
women's influence on literary style, 85.
women's letters, 110.
Wordsworth, William, 302.
Worth, M., 17.
Wright, C. D., 38.
Wright, Thomas, quoted, 148.
X.
Xanthippe, 81.
Y.
Yale University, 99.Youth, the flood-tide of, 48.
Z.
Zeus, 45.The end.
